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Default Floppy drive broken in HP4145B Parameter Analyzer

probably just a common older 750kb single sided 3.5 inch drive.

tear it apart, extract the floppy drive and hack in an ebay unit from some
surplus dealer of seller.

that actually may be harder to find since it is "dated"


"sunshine" wrote in message
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Hi,

we are still using the obsolete HP4145B Parameter Analyzer. It's a
wonderful piece of equipment and it does the job.
Although it is hooked up to GPIB, it still needs the floppy drive with
a bootdisk. Unfortunately the floppy drive broke and Agilent does not
have any spare parts. Even though it is 3.5" it is not compatible with
the common PC floppy drives. Any idea to work around this (except
buying new equipment)?

Any comments are welcome.

Thanks,
David